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How Judges Decide Cases: Reading, Writing and Analysing Judgments 2nd ed

Andrew Goodman

ISBN13: 9780854902453

Previous Edition ISBN: 1908013060

Published: June 2018

Publisher: Wildy, Simmonds and Hill Publishing

Country of Publication: UK

Format: Paperback

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"A really useful resource... highly recommended" Law Gazette

How Judges Decide Cases is a unique and practical guide which looks at how cases are decided and judgments are written.

It examines the style and language of judges expressing judicial opinion and considers the drive for rational justice. The book is founded upon independent research in the form of interviews conducted with judges at every level, from deputy district judges to justices of the Supreme Court, and the practical application of academic material more usually devoted to the structure and analysis of wider prose writing.

This new edition has been revised to take into account modern scientific thinking on bias in decision-making and is generic to all areas of contentious law. Newly appointed recorders, deputy judges, tribunal chairman, lay magistrates and arbitrators as well as experienced practitioners will find it invaluable as a guide to the deconstruction of judgments for the purpose of appeal.

Subjects:: Advocacy, Drafting and Legal Writing, Wildy, Simmonds and Hill, Courts and Procedure, Judiciary

Contents:: Introduction;; 1. HOW JUDGES DECIDE CASES;; 1.1 Judicial transparency;; 1.2 The mechanics of fact finding;; 1.3 Questions of weight in fact finding;; 1.4 Evidence on oath;; 1.5 The dilemma of impression;; 1.6 Menschkeit and judicial civility;; 1.7 Conscious and unconscious bias;; 1.8 Decision-making in interim applications;; 1.9 The exercise of judicial discretion;; 1.10 Decision-making by tribunals; 2. THE APPELLATE JUDGMENT;; 2.1 Appellate courts and tribunals;; 2.2 Decision-making in the Court of Appeal;; 2.3 Dissent;; 2.4 The appeals and appellate committees of the Supreme Court;; 2.5 Delivery of Supreme Court judgments;; 2.6 Decision-making by the appellate committee;; 2.7 The appellate committee and judge-made law;; 2.8 Judicial Committee of the Privy Council;; 3. WRITING JUDGMENTS, DECISIONS AND AWARDS;; 3.1 Delivering and writing judgments;; 3.2 Preparation;; 3.3 Judgment in the lower courts; 3.4 Judicial training;; 3.5 On finding facts;; 3.6 On addressing the loser;; 3.7 On the task in hand;; 3.8 On the issue of credibility;; 3.9 On the use of language;; 3.10 On using counsel’s written submissions;; 3.11 Personal views on framework;; 3.12 Civil fast track;; 3.13 Family cases;; 3.14 Master’s or district judge’s application;; 3.15 High Court trial;; 3.16 Arbitration;; 3.17 Writing tribunal decisions;; 3.18 A general approach;; 3.19 Majority decisions;; 3.20 Interlocutory rulings and orders;; 3.21 Model decision-writing for tribunals;; 3.22 Writing appellate judgments;; 3.23 Appellate tribunal awards;; 3.24 Court of Appeal judgments; 4. READING JUDGMENTS;; 4.1 Basic principles: focus and time; 4.2 Focus;; 4.3 Time; 4.4 Inspectional reading;; 4.5 The mechanics of analytical reading;; 4.6 Form and structure;; 4.7 Preparing an analysis;; 4.8 Classification;; 4.9 Interpretation;; 4.10 Deconstruction;; 4.11 Syntopical reading; 5. THE USE OF LANGUAGE IN JUDGMENTS; 5.1 The choice of judicial language;; 5.2 Linguistic analysis;; 5.3 The use of words;; 5.4 The structure of sentences;; 5.5 The language of lawyers; 5.6 Contemporary vocabulary and social change;; 5.7 Dealing with technical and specialist vocabulary;; 5.8 The residual use of legal Latin and French;; 5.9 Literary style in judgments;; 5.10 Judicial literary techniques;; 5.11 Imperative and declarative sentences;; 5.12 The compressive metaphor;; 5.13 The elegant variation;; 5.14 The factual allusion;; 5.15 The literary allusion;; 5.16 Simplification of ideas;; 5.17 Other techniques;; 5.18 The impact of distinctive judicial literary style; 6. ANALYSING JUDGMENTS: REASONING, ARGUMENT AND LEGAL LOGIC;; 6.1 Reasoning, argument and legal logic;; 6.2 Locating the arguments;; 6.3 Units of reasoning;; 6.4 Finding the solution;; 6.5 The domestic approach;; 6.6 Judicial reasoning and the role of persuasion;; 6.7 Distinguishing grammatical and logical interpretation;; 6.8 Positive judicial argument;; 6.9 Aids to reasoning;; 6.10 The judge and the expert;; 6.11 The use of precedent;; 6.12 Precedent and reasoning;; 6.13 At the coal face: trial judges;; 6.14 Distinguishing your judgment;; 6.15 Ratio and obiter;; 7. ANALYSING JUDGMENTS: TECHNIQUES FOR CRITICISM;; 7.1 Criticising a judgment fairly;; 7.2 Analysing your disagreement objectively;; 7.3 Distinguishing between knowledge and opinion;; 7.4 The focus of your criticism;; 7.5 The mechanics of fair criticism;; 7.6 Uninformed;; 7.7 Misinformed;; 7.8 Illogical;; 7.9 Incompleteness;; 7.10 The structured critique;; 8. USING LAW REPORTS;; 8.1 Fundamentals and difficulties;; 8.2 The functionality of law reports;; 8.3 Accuracy in law reporting;; 8.4 Editorial anomalies;; Bibliography;